Risk for Cyberattacks Heightened as Remote Work Continues
Remote work is expected to lead to more attacks on retirement plan accounts, but there...
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Get Beneficiary Designation and Missing Participant Practices in Order
The pandemic has highlighted the need for plan sponsors to actively encourage revised beneficiary designations...
Survey Findings
The past decade saw an increase in the percentage of frozen DB plans, which jumped to 68% this year from 22% in 2010.
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Changing Messages About Benefits
Plan sponsors can create new communications to engage participants with their retirement and health benefit plans that take into consideration special circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vanguard Transfers Recordkeeping Operations to Infosys
Through a strategic partnership, Infosys and Vanguard will provide a cloud-based recordkeeping platform, with planned enhancements for plan sponsors and...
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Alight to Offer Auto-Portability Solution to DC Plan Clients
Retirement Clearinghouse says it hopes other recordkeepers will adopt its product to help reduce the depletion of retirement savings from...
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Can Other Distributions Be Treated as Coronavirus-Related Distributions?
Experts from Groom Law Group and Cammack Retirement Group answer questions concerning retirement plan administration and regulations.
Lawsuit Over Kentucky Retirement System Hedge Fund Investments Dismissed
The Kentucky Supreme Court said it ‘recognizes that plaintiffs allege significant misconduct,’ but it found they lacked standing to bring...
Goldman Sachs Fails to Get ERISA Self-Dealing Suit Dismissed
A federal judge found claims by a participant in the Goldman Sachs 401(k) plan sufficiently plead imprudence and disloyalty.
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COVID-19 Compliance Corner: IRS Eases 401(k) Safe Harbor Suspension Rules
Each week, Carol Buckmann, with Cohen & Buckmann P.C., will explain legislative provisions or official guidance related to the COVID-19...
Retirement Industry People Moves
ISS ESG selects global research leader; Newport Group acquires PAi and affiliate company; R&M adds actuarial professionals to Denver region;...
Wawa ERISA Fiduciary Breach Lawsuit Settlement Revealed
The class action settlement agreement includes $21.6 million in cash payments, with no admission of wrongdoing by the plan’s fiduciaries.
How DB Plans Fare During Volatility Depends Greatly on Portfolio Allocation
Depending on asset allocation, some plans have fared better than others, but the majority are down for the year.
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Coronavirus and Your Company’s Retirement Plan
As more states respond to the Coronavirus by ordering people to shelter in place and closing nonessential business operations, commerce is screeching to a halt. Millions of Americans are being forced onto unemployment...
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Financial ownership: Helping participants move from engagement to actions
Catherine Golladay, President Schwab Retirement Plan Services keynote from the PLANSPONSOR National Conference
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Attracting Employees by Helping Them Tackle Student Loan Debt Within a Holistic Financial Wellness Program
Working Americans are no longer just saving for retirement. Too many are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling with managing debts of all types. Student loan management needs are peaking at an all-time high,...
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The Road Ahead
What plan sponsors should evaluate once the immediate crisis ends.
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Company Stock a Different Animal in a Downturn
In times of market volatility, plans heavily invested in company stock may...
Investment Focus
It Takes Two
Sponsors may offer an income product, but do participants understand and use...
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Same but Different
Lessons on past market breaks, from seasoned bond investors.
ERISA Examination
New Benefits for the ‘Disaster’
IRC Section 139 provides expanded relief for affected employees.
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